{"id":1212,"date":"2016-05-24T13:57:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T20:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/45.77.187.106\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2016-05-25T09:11:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T16:11:56","slug":"datrium-dvx-introduces-insane-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindthevirt.com\/datrium-dvx-introduces-insane-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Datrium DVX Introduces Insane Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Datrium just announced a brand new feature of the Datrium DVX &#8211; Insane Mode for Insane Performance.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.73333;\">The Datrium DVX Insane Mode allows VMware admins to quickly increase the storage\u00a0performance by up to 2x, without any storage controller upgrade&#8230; I know it sounds too good to be true but the Datrium DVX is truly <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.73333;\">INSANE<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.73333;\">!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Before Insane Mode (One host with 40CPU cores):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/45.77.187.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-23-at-9.53.07-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1215 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/45.77.187.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-23-at-9.53.07-PM-1024x797.png\" alt=\"insane mode\" width=\"695\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindthevirt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-23-at-9.53.07-PM-1024x797.png 1024w, https:\/\/mindthevirt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-23-at-9.53.07-PM-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/mindthevirt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-23-at-9.53.07-PM-768x598.png 768w, https:\/\/mindthevirt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-23-at-9.53.07-PM-975x759.png 975w, https:\/\/mindthevirt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-23-at-9.53.07-PM.png 1629w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>42,642 red IOPS at 0.6ms DAVG latency?\u00a0Holy guacamole!!!<br \/>\nI think you all would agree that this isn&#8217;t bad at all, especially if you&#8217;re sitting in front of your old storage array with half the flexibility and you have to renew your old and $$$ service contract.<\/p>\n<p>Well, let me tell you this, we&#8217;re not done yet. Let&#8217;s take a look at the same host, same workload with Insane mode enabled.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>After Insane Mode (One host with 40CPU cores):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/45.77.187.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-23-at-9.57.43-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1217 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/45.77.187.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-23-at-9.57.43-PM-1024x801.png\" alt=\"insane mode\" width=\"695\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindthevirt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-23-at-9.57.43-PM-1024x801.png 1024w, https:\/\/mindthevirt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-23-at-9.57.43-PM-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/mindthevirt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-23-at-9.57.43-PM-768x601.png 768w, https:\/\/mindthevirt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-23-at-9.57.43-PM-975x763.png 975w, https:\/\/mindthevirt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-23-at-9.57.43-PM.png 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wait what? What just happened? Yes, this is the same host, same workload and just seconds after enabling Insane Mode. You&#8217;re seeing 69.000 read IOPS at 0.3 ms latency! I know, it must be hard to explain to your CIO why you are still spending those $$$ on expensive storage arrays and service contracts.<\/p>\n<p>I should probably mention, enabling Insane Mode is completely non-disruptive. Also, I can&#8217;t say your users won&#8217;t notice anything because it is non-disruptive, because I&#8217;m pretty sure they&#8217;ll see their workloads now flying.<\/p>\n<p>My colleague Michael McLaughlin created this fantastic video to show you how easy it is to enable Insane Mode.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PtMLEIWdMDA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So enough of all this awesome talk, let&#8217;s take a look how the Datrium DVX can achieve such great performance with millisecond latencies.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Each host in a Datrium DVX has its own flash.<\/li>\n<li>The default setting (FAST) of the DVX Hyperdriver reserves up to 20% of all CPU cores.<\/li>\n<li>Insane Mode reserves up to 40% of all CPU cores, which means we have 2x the\u00a0processing power for storage operations &#8211;\u00a0<strong>per host!!!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Btw, if you are one of those guys who thinks it is bad idea to utilize CPU resources on the host, go and take a look in your environment, I&#8217;m sure you can find most hosts having plenty of idle CPU resources.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, just post a comment below or hit me up on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MindTheVirt\">@MindTheVirt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Datrium just announced a brand new feature of the Datrium DVX &#8211; Insane Mode for Insane Performance. 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